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Prior to Heller, some of the cutting edge pro-rights legal theorists were starting to explore the 9th amendment as a venue for attacking idiocy like the Hughes Amendment or the Clinton AWB. after all-if "rights" the founders never mentioned, never discussed, and most likely never even gave a thought to as being rights (gay marriage, abortion, healthcare etc) are protected by the 9th amendment, why shouldn't a right that was clearly and constantly discussed by the founders be protected as well?
The ARC (Anti rights coalition-the term those of us in the pro-rights movement use to describe the various groups and individuals seeking to restrict or ban guns) has tried to pretend that the Second Amendment only matters to those actively in a state organization known as the "well regulated militia". While this flies in the face of the undisputed fact (See Cruikshank v. US and the writings of St George Tucker) that the founders saw the second as merely GUARANTEEING a pre-existing (government) natural right, some statist judges, misconstruing Cruikshank claimed that since the constitution did NOT CREATE the right, it does not exist.
Now Heller has pretty well destroyed that nonsense but Chelsea Clinton has brayed that her mother hopes to appoint justices who would reverse Heller
I would like to hear those who believe that the USSC correctly found various rights to abortion and gay marriage in the 9th Amendment, should not find a similar right to be armed as one chooses in the same amendment.
The ARC (Anti rights coalition-the term those of us in the pro-rights movement use to describe the various groups and individuals seeking to restrict or ban guns) has tried to pretend that the Second Amendment only matters to those actively in a state organization known as the "well regulated militia". While this flies in the face of the undisputed fact (See Cruikshank v. US and the writings of St George Tucker) that the founders saw the second as merely GUARANTEEING a pre-existing (government) natural right, some statist judges, misconstruing Cruikshank claimed that since the constitution did NOT CREATE the right, it does not exist.
Now Heller has pretty well destroyed that nonsense but Chelsea Clinton has brayed that her mother hopes to appoint justices who would reverse Heller
I would like to hear those who believe that the USSC correctly found various rights to abortion and gay marriage in the 9th Amendment, should not find a similar right to be armed as one chooses in the same amendment.